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I test fired the S&W Model 915 with the curved grip and the two magazines for it that I'd replaced the springs. I think it went well...

I give you the S&W Equalizer with thumb safety! The cuts on the slide give a better grip for Harvey to pull and the lighter spring mean...

Harvey has complained about her grip strength since she went bionic. Because she's hit the wall in improving her shooting, we decided t...

In this thread , there are pictures of the arched backstrap for the model 59 and x59 guns. Installed on a 459: This is what the packaging lo...

Did you know they made arched grips for 3rd gen S&W autos? I do now! Model 915 before: Model 915 after: I have long thought that the 59...

Magazine springs are wear items. Check every once and while if they've shrunk. The top magazine is brand new.  The bottom one isn't....

The center group is the M&P 2.0 9 Compact.  The other two groups are the Shield Plus. I then decided to so some Mozambiqu...

Smith and Wesson is, apparently, giving away some 3rd Gen pistols. If you click this cunningly crafted link , and enter yourself into the sw...

There's a company, 2nd Amendment Bourbon, that packages their whisky in faux gun cases. We succumbed to the marketing gimmick. We've...

Software Janitor is not familiar with S&W latest offerings. This is an M&P 2.0 9 Compact. It's about Glock 19 size and is distin...

Did you know that the magazine release on a S&W M&P Shield Plus is reversible from RH to LH? I did not. But I do now! I'd long w...

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Every once and a while, I wonder about a S&W 4506. Marsellus Wallace toted one in Pulp Fiction. Bigger and heavier than the P220 I alrea...

Willard and I recalled that S&W 59 magazines worked in the Daewoo DP-51. We cannot check that because the DP-51 has hidden itself from h...

.357 SIG is about as identical to .38 Super, ballistically, as you can get. The gigantic difference is the pistol. My .38 Super 1911 Gov...

It's a bad plan, but I tend to not shoot the gun I carry all the time because I'm carrying it... I need not have worried overmuch be...

First, the M&P 9 2.0 Compact isn't properly called an M&P 9C. Mostly because the true 9C was a 12-round gun with the matching sh...

Honest Outlaw left his M&P 9 2.0 Compact outside for a bit more than three months. It doesn't appear to have hurt it functionally.

Smith and Wesson's new Equalizer pistol uses the same magazines as the Sheild Plus. That's a really sensible decision.

I'm noticing that the M&P 9 Metal has hit the shelves. For a solid $200 more than it's plastic progenitor. On one hand, that...